Our current study’s overall objective is to further explore bilingual speakers’ grammar by investigating the possible effects of age, language use, and exposure among bilingual adults (18+). The main goal is to find whether these factors may affect the development and maintenance of critical aspects of their grammar involved in logical reasoning, such as the distributive and collective interpretations of universal quantifiers, such as every and all the. The question we have in mind is: do the age, language use, and exposure of bilingual speakers to each of the languages affect the accuracy and timing in the interpretation of quantifiers compared to monolinguals. The study carries out a series of online questionnaires and tasks to assess linguistic background, language proficiency, dominance, and an experimental task to assess the subject’s interpretation of quantifiers. Understanding this critical aspect of bilingual grammars may provide essential information to programs about this population’s logical reasoning to further develop appropriate pedagogy.

Our current study’s overall objective is to further explore bilingual speakers’ grammar by investigating the possible effects of age, language use, and exposure among bilingual adults (18+). The main goal is to find whether these factors may affect the development and maintenance of critical aspects of their grammar involved in logical reasoning. This study explores the acceptability of telic and atelic interpretations among bilinguals who are Heritage speakers of Spanish and English and among monolingually-raised speakers of the two languages as a point of comparison. We focus on levels of lexical access in the heritage and the socially dominant language, as well as dominance, age of acquisition, and patterns of language use.

The effects of proficiency, age of acquisition, and language usage on lexical retrieval among Spanish heritage speakers.

This study analyzes the impact of social variables, such as self-rated proficiency, age of acquisition, and language usage, on the speed and accuracy of lexical retrieval in Spanish-English bilinguals.